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Old 17th February 2011 | 02:12
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Pilot DAR
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you could never feel the trim change quite like the good ole fashion wheel
The control force can be made to diminish to none......?

Runaway trim wheels whats that?
Wooooo, that can be rather scary! I had a Cessna 185 floatplane trim runaway, during the dive recovery from an intentional spin once. The little plastic detent assembly just did not have what it took to hold the wheel in place, and it went full travel very quickly. It's a lot of quick hand motion, while recovering a dive, to get it back to where it is supposed to be!
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